Features & Benefits

• Enables true USB plug-and-play connectivity for the DPO4000, TDS2000B, and TDS1000B Series Oscilloscopes and AFG3000 Series Arbitrary/ Function Generators
• Get to measurements quickly with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface that does not require any programming
• Advanced analysis and reporting capabilities
• Quickly and easily import your simulated results and compare against actual measured results live on-screen
• Automatic sweeping
• Limit testing
• Connect and control multiple instruments from within one software environment

Applications

• Design Validation
• Component Characterization
• Simulation Analysis
• Advanced Digital Signal Processing
• Automated Test

Increase your productivity with the industry’s most seamless instrument-to-PC connectivity solutions

USB Plug-and-Play

Import and Compare

Capture and Document

Industry's first true USB plug-and-play connectivity for oscilloscopes

Advanced Analysis
SignalExpress TE contains more than 200 different measurement, processing, analysis, and reporting capabilities that can be applied to data being acquired from Tektronix instruments.

Automated Measurements
Take advantage of several major time-saving features, including automated measurement sweeping and limit testing. These features provide relief from this traditionally manual and time-intensive process.

Connect and Control
Remove the guesswork when connecting the test instrument to a PC by connecting and controlling multiple instruments from one software environment, all within a single drag-and-drop user interface.

SIGEXPTE Professional
The base version of SignalExpress TE comes standard with the DPO4000, TDS2000B and TDS1000B Series oscilloscopes. SIGEXPTE Professional adds extended analysis capabilities

SignalExpress TE is available in two different versions:

SignalExpress(TE) Base
The Base version provides connectivity and control as well as basic visualization and documentation features for the DPO4000, TDS3000B, TDS1000B, TDS2000B and AFG3000 series instruments. It is the standard connectivity software that ships with every DPO4000.

SignalExpress (TE) Professional
SignalExpress (TE) Professional includes the same instrument support as the Base version plus support for over 300 common standalone instruments from Tektronix and other 3rd party manufacturers. The professional version also includes over 200 advanced analysis, processing and reporting features not available in the Base version.

SignalExpress(TE) is also available as a free download from Tektronix or National Instruments.

Is Signal Express Tektronix Edition For You?

For Design Engineers
Interactive measurements are most common in design and validation applications. Several key application areas for interactive measurements in design include verifying circuit prototypes, characterizing components and systems, and acquiring measurement data to develop behavior models for circuits used in EDA tools, such as Electronics Workbench Multisim. SignalExpress TE offers several key improvements for interactive measurements in design that reduces the amount of time spent in the labs. One of these key areas is providing engineers with the tools to quickly perform advanced analysis on their incoming signals without requiring specialized equipment. Many engineers must currently save their data to file on a floppy disk or USB stick and take the data back to their desk to perform sdetailed analysis on their measurement data. Another key feature is removing a lot of the complexity of remembering how to operate a variety of different instruments by providing a consistent user interface for controlling multiple instruments and saving common configuration settings for each measurement. Thirdly, a major time saving feature for today's design engineers is the ability to quickly correlate their live measurement results against the simulated SPICE results from their EDA tools. This is one area that today's engineers have had to come up with creative workarounds to compare their measured and simulated results. A common method of correlation is printing both waveforms and holding the overlaid sheets up to the light to accurately compare their measured results against the expected simulation results.

For Test Engineers
Interactive measurements are also critical in test applications for verifying measurements when developing a more sophisticated automated test application. Test engineers also use interactive measurements to diagnose faulty connections and equipment in existing automated test systems in validation and manufacturing systems. Furthermore, interactive measurements are used on repair benches in manufacturing to troubleshoot problems in manufacturing defects. One extremely important requirement for these applications is a fast time to measurement. Engineers performing interactive measurements need to access their live measurements as quickly as possible which implies the need for a non-programmed measurement solution. A big challenge that still exists today for engineers is performing more complex interactive measurements that require triggering and synchronization between multiple benchtop instruments without having to write a test program. SignalExpress TE is an interactive measurement solution for today's engineers that addresses these three requirements and greatly increases the productivity of taking interactive measurements in test.

Measurement Software Comparisons
When controlling benchtop instruments from the PC, users typically had to choose from vendor provided freeware with limited instrument and analysis support or write their own measurement application. SignalExpress provides a new option with an interactive environment that supports over 300 of the most common standalone instruments combined with advanced analysis, processing and reporting features. The following section details how NI SignalExpress TE compares to other Tektronix software offerings.